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Emergency manager reports bridge work, grant activity and a planned switch from Nixle to lower-cost alert software
Summary
Emergency Management Coordinator Steve Wall reported passing certification (one class remaining), temporary bridge construction on County Road P to allow emergency access, grants submitted, a damage-assessment class on March 25, and plans to stop using Nixle at year-end in favor of cheaper, more capable software.
Steve Wall, Emergency Management Coordinator, updated the committee March 4 on several operational items: he passed a certification (with one remaining class in April), said the county will build a temporary bridge on County Road P with no weight restrictions so emergency personnel can cross, noted grants have been submitted and that he is working on the La Crosse Milling offsite plan, and announced a damage-assessment class scheduled for March 25, 2026 at 10 a.m. on the courthouse third floor.
Wall also told the committee the county plans to discontinue Nixle at the end of the year because its cost kept increasing and that a new alerting software, which he said is "half of the price and offers more," will replace it. The committee recorded the report and had no questions on expenditures tied to the emergency management budget.
Why it matters: the temporary bridge and the change in alerting software both affect response capability and operational costs for the county's emergency services. The damage-assessment class is a near-term training event for county personnel.
The committee accepted the report; staff will proceed with grant work, the bridge project planning, and implementation steps for the alerting software change.
